An additional quality system for red meat in South Africa
Shakes Shabalala: When hard work pays off
FOCUS ON the LRF Stockman School
Water intake • Soya beans • Shade • Trace minerals • Bull selection
Breeding season • Biosecurity • Blackleg • Gousiekte • Business structures • Auctions

Focus on the Brahman
Good shearing practices
Brahman meat quality: A review
Sky-Hi Manso’s • Kroon Vee Brahmans • Te Water Group • Tall fesque • Spring grazing
Heterosis • Rotavirus • Parasite control • Soya oilcake • Auctions

Soya crop residues for sheep
Buy or rent land: Weigh your options
The building blocks of a layer farm
Focus on the Boran
Janvos Landgoed • Boschendal Angus • Weaning shock • Broiler nutrition
Sickle bush control • Inoculants • Tapeworm • Newcastle disease

Beef production at the Outeniqua Research Farm
Problem animals on livestock farms
Avondale Tuli: Production comes first
Livestock theft • rBST in milk • Backgrounding • Rainwater harvesting
Teff varieties • Weaning • Bankrupt worm • Sheep scab • Auctions

During last year’s LRF Stockman School, aspects such as eye-muscle area, backfat thickness, and marbling were among the topics discussed. These are the aspects measured in stud bulls and, if incorporated in selection processes, should yield higher quality carcasses in the measured bull’s progeny. But do stud and commercial cattle producers give these traits the attention they deserve and are producers’ goals in this regard aligned with that of feedlots? In the April issue of Stockfarm we examine this question from a few angles. Also included are articles focussing on the feedlot industry, promising some new insights into this essential agricultural sector. 

Also look forward to the following articles:
• Climate indices for informed decision-making.
• South African feedlots and Vision 2030.
• SerDev farmer development goes from strength to strength.
• Nutri-economics in the imitation meat market.
• Weiklip Boerdery’s feedlot: Excellent management for superior results.
• Bonheur Eben, the Braford bull with an impressive FCR.
• Winter licks can mitigate the challenges.
• Beware: Lupins can poison your livestock.
• Efficient use of water (Part 1).
• Breeding goals: Building blocks of success.
• Cull defect identification for high reproduction rates.
• Feedlotting of sheep.
• Vitamin A deficiencies in winter.
• The crucial functions of trace minerals.
• Financing and setting up a farm feedlot.
• And much more!

Calculating small-stock production potential
Role and functions of the dairy ombudsman
Winston South Devon: Home of naturally proficient cow mothers
Rudzani Sadiki • Puttergill Farming • Up George Bonsmaras • GerLou Simbras
Kroon Vee Brahmans • Animal welfare • Silage crops • Pulpy kidney • Redwater
Pasture resilience • Sheep judging

Unlock herd wealth through the auction catalogue
Key principles of rangeland condition and cattle production
Kermar Brangus: Keeping it all together like a three-legged pot
Climate change • Creep feed • Body condition • Fungicides and silage
Ewe synchronisation • Copper toxicity • Rift Valley fever • Two-host ticks • Auctions

Financing of developing agribusinesses
The raw milk dilemma
Van Greunen Boerdery reclaims the silage crown
Biogas • Processed meat • Soil health • Hay quality • Buy a bull • Breeding values
Anthrax • Eye infections • Renting farmland • Auctions

The auction catalogue as a guideline for selection
Focus on Silage
2023 ARC Beef Performers Awards winners' supplement
LRF Stockman School • Dairy herd KPIs • Fly control • Foot-and-mouth disease
Screwworm • Illegal eviction • Auctions

Alternative energy considerations for larger farms
How grain markets influence feed prices
2023 ARC National Beef Performers Awards finalists
Cover crops • Veld management • Soya beans • Heat stress • Record-keeping
Footrot • Lumpy skin disease • Nasal bot

Piet Roux: Tips for surviving drought
Petrus van Eeden’s veld feedlot
Focus on pig production
Mycotoxins • Bull nutrition • Soya beans • Pig fertility
Grazing management • Coccidiosis • Bluetongue • Biosecurity • Auctions

Regenerative agriculture and fertilisers: Misconceptions
The raw milk risk
ALS Group: Sustainability is the key
Goat meat • Feed storage • Total mixed rations • Phosphate
Camp systems • The rumen • Wireworm • Metritis • Auctions

A local perspective on regenerative farming
Focus on the Brahman
Award-winning Selina Hlabedi’s success story
Home-mixing of oilcake • Net feed intake • Tulip poisoning • Rotavirus
Stomach fluke • Structural evaluation • Auctions

Agricultural engineering: Still a career option?
Poultry farming for beginners
The Boran in a crossbreeding system
Condition scoring • Feed for layers • Hypocalcaemia • Finishing • Fence maintenance • Biosecurity • Acidosis • Histophilus somni • Rats and mice

Ins and outs of the split-ranch system
Impact of predation on the red meat industry
Chris Barnard: Feeding for excellent ROI
Lactation curves • Milk handlers • Finishing old cows • Phosphorus
Biosecurity • Abortions • Bankrupt worm • Liver fluke • Lice and mites

Traceability in the feedlot industry
Rensbou Ankoles: Perfection is the only way to go
AFMA’s code of conduct for the feed industry
Serdev honours top farmers
Anionic salt • Winter licks • Productive veld • Feedlot infrastructure • Seller’s declarations • Age determination • Rift Valley fever • Respiratory diseases

GENOMICS: Impact on breeding values and selection of Merinos
Alternative power options for your farm
State of affairs at the Land Bank
Cow efficiency • Windmill maintenance • Game industry • Irrigated forage crops
Biosecurity • Dairy cow rations • Pulpy kidney • Rabies

Boer goat veld ram project: All eyes on the king of the goats
Make your taxes work for you
A grazing strategy for wet sourveld
Premixes • Prosopis • Water quality • Creep feed
Synchronisation • Redwater • Rift Valley fever • Auctions

How time and patience unlocked the Dorper’s purpose
The use of drones for precision livestock farming
Impact of cross-border crime on producers along the Lesotho border
Lamb nutrition • Bush thickening • Hay baling • Merino wool quality
Biosecurity • Blowflies • Moraxella • Ticks • Auctions

The basics of hay production
South African silage goes from strength to strength
2022 ARC National Beef Cattle Performers Awards
UFS wool project • Biosecurity • Indigenous veld goats • Phosphorus • Zoonoses • Swollen head • Auctions

Lukas Burger: A passion for (the best) Boer goats
The do’s and don’ts of water supply
ARC irrigation manual: Reviewed and updated
Water • Heifer nutrition • Heat tolerance • Sheep systems • Vaccination plan
Lumpy skin disease • Bluetongue • Auctions

Regenerative farming and natural fibre producers
A visit to the Kroon Vee stud
ARC Beef Performers Awards: The what and how
Heat stress • Lucerne • Salt intake • Trace elements • Ram breeding
Animal handling • Cryptosporidiosis • Lameness • Auctions

Focus on pig production
Climate-Smart Ambassador announced!
Robert Mphuthi: Building a legacy, one cow at a time
Raising piglets • Cover crops • Heat stress • Flush feed
Buying rams • Pig housing • Bankrupt worm • Auctions

Raw material price hikes and feed prices
LITS-SA update: Where do we stand?
CREEP FEED IN THE CALVING SEASON
Organic milk production • Teaser rams • Lamb care • Soil analysis
Prussic acid poisoning • Brown stomach worm • Early weaning • Auctions

Principles of an effective animal health programme
Purpose-driven animal nutrition
Focus on the Brahman breed
Mating dexterity • Feed efficiency • Dry-season nutrition
Silage bales • Brucellosis • Nodular worm • Trading Post

Agriculture in South Africa: Status, prospects and priorities
Focus on the Boran breed
Crop residues • Soya beans • Genetic improvement • Ram nutrition
Sheep scab • Tulip poisoning • Mastitis • Trading Post

Peter Moroka: Tackling challenges together
Precision silage production: YES YOU CAN!
The restorative effect of conservation agriculture on soil health
Veld burning practices • Backgrounding • Licks • Ram preparation
Weaning shock • Botulism • Tetanus • Trading Post

The other three Ps of weaner calf marketing
Red meat consumption in South Africa
How a cattle farm can capitalise on the value chain
Climate-smart farming: Radical veld improvement and recovery
Lick supplementation • Greenfeed • Feedlot finishing
Replacement heifers • Clostridial diseases • Acidosis • Trading Post

Sparta’s winning recipe of experience and innovation
FEEDLOTS in South Africa
Record-keeping for sheep producers
Phase feeding • Lick intake • Silage sampling • Sexed semen • Weaning • Bonsmara catalogue • Liver fluke • Deworming • Teat dips

Hybrid vigour for better genetics
Fuel price increases and the producer
Baynesfield Beefmasters: Early-maturing traits for optimal profitability
Jackson Angoras • Climate-smart farming • Trace minerals
Footrot • Hay production • Lamb survival • Anaplasmosis

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